CA Datacom

CA Disk is now one of several CA products that are tightly integrated with, and make use of the database capabilities in CA Datacom.

CA Datacom provides a state-of-the-art, high performance database for CA Disk. That is, as a licensed customer of CA Disk, you can use CA Datacom to manage your CA Disk FILES data set.

For CA Disk users, this includes the following abilities:

By now utilizing the CA Datacom Database, CA Disk will no longer use EXCP I/O to access the FILES dataset, it will use the high performance multi-tasking and multi-threading engine provided by the new database.
Conversion from one or more FILES dataset to CA Datacom Databases is done without downtime to CA Disk processes. Several FILES datasets can be consolidated into a single database or kept separated. In addition, a mixed implementation with data on FILES dataset and CA Datacom Databases is supported.
Switching to the new CA Datacom Database will save the once tedious time for reorganizations. The new process is self-reorganizing thus many times easier to use.
Historically CA Disk required the operating system to use the Data Set and Device enqueing, thus single threading the work load. CA Disk will now process using the record level locking provided by the new CA Datacom Database.